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Night after night in the Chi Psi fraternity house at Middlebury College, Vermont, a lank, black-haired youth used to sit at the piano, pounding out the lusty lament about the brave engineer's "farewell trip to the Promised Land." Since the piano-thumper's name was Jones, he was nicknamed "Casey." His first initials, C. S. for Charles Sherman, perpetuated the nickname from those days, 20 years ago, until he became an aviator. Then it stuck as the perfect name for a hard-bitten pilot. It helped make him a glamorous figure in the swashbuckling period...
...true picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually a disciple of the mysterious metaphysics of the department of Government, or else he is whooping it up in the train of some attractive tub-thumper like Mencken. Such muddleheadedness, naturally derived from their betters, leads the students to support Hoover because it is the thing to do, or to support Roosevelt because he sounds so nice and liberal, even though they know you can't prove it. Those men who might be politically minded find themselves...
Whiteman himself is rather a proper person. He is no barroom piano thumper risen high, but a decently schooled musician who in his lowly days occupied the comparatively dignified position of symphony orchestra player...